Succotash Shut-In

Succotash Chats Epi128: Livin' It Up At The Improv

Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, was launched in 2011 with the idea of promoting comedy soundcasts in what was then a marketplace still trying to find its way. By featuring short clips of shows being produced by funny folks both known and unknown, we like to feel that we maybe had a little tiny, eeny weeny, itsy bitsy bit to do with helping to ignite the torch of soundcasts across the globe! (But then we've always had a rather high opinion of ourselves...)

Original show host and executive producer Marc Hershon, along with booth announcer Bill Heywatt, engineer/producer Joe Paulino, associate producer Tyson Saner, musical director Scott Carvey, and booth assistant Kenny Durgis have kept the flame alive o'er these many years. In 2018, Hershon abandoned the host chair and anointed Saner to the position, with nary a notice from the legions of listeners. Typical.

Yes,
this is Marc Hershon, your host and non-fat
dried milk for Epi 128 of Succotash, the Comedy Podcast
Podcast. And this is the very first episode of the show to be
recorded in front of a LIVE audience! It all went down on Friday,
February 5th, at the Comedy Lab, the tiny showroom next door to the
world famous Improvisation in West Hollywood,
California.

Friend-of-SuccotashRick Overton was slated to be on the
show as well, but had to bail as he got cast in an episode of HBO's
Veep literally the night before and had to be on set
shooting at the same time we were doing the podcast.

I want
to thank the Sideshow Network's Shawn
Marek and his crew for inviting us in and making the
whole thing come together. As well as the folks who showed up to
watch — 6 PM on a Friday night in LA is a sketchy time to pull off
a show and we did it. (I will not be thanking the LA Parking
Authority, which slapped me with a $63 ticket because the show ran
10 minutes too late for me to feed my meter…)

Suffice
it to say, between airfare, the rental car, and the parking
tickets, and the dinner I bought some of our guests afterward, this
was the most expensive episode of Succotash to date. Which
seems a dandy time to remind you that there are several ways to
help support the show:

• Click
on the Amazon banner at the top of http://SuccotashShow.com and we get
a slice off anything that you might happen to purchase during that
shopping trip

• Click
on the link to The Succotashery at http://SuccotashShow.com, purch some merch,
and festoon yourself with our logo

If
money's an issue, you can give us moral support by clicking over to
iTunes to rate and review us, Like our page on Facebook, Follow @SuccotashShow on Twitter, "heart" us on SoundCloud
and, whenever you get the chance, whether you're with friends,
family, co-workers, or total strangers, please remember to pass the
Succotash!